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  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  , which would make some in the audience gasp ("She got into MIT with those ... whose application I just read was like Pink in many ways. She came from a ... admissions [I] have seen in [my] time, both as a student and as an admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  , and often I find myself wondering how things would be if I had stepped ... Wow I haven’t blogged in one million years! I feel like I’ve written ... year, in order to 1) see what actually happened and 2) figure out what I

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  ’t imagine how much it would terrify me if I read this sort of thing before ... score number. Let me tell you how I ended up here. As a senior in high ... told them about how media has played such a huge role in shaping who I am

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  would be times I'd take a step back, and just reflect upon how everything ... , in true form, what the term "bleary-eyed" really means. Mind you, I was ... sleep every 30 hours or so for a week. In other words, I've had my fair

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  get in than people like us.” In order to fit in I would laugh and try to ... experiences.   I was waiting in line with my head more or less glued to my cellphone screen. I was moderately aware of how I looked, my 3M

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  past few weeks about how terribly hosed people are, I thought I'd bring ... environment!). (Btw, I find it funny that in Ben's original post, he wrote ... in fact I'm not sure I have anything to offer in comparison to the rest

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  light, or learned how to in bruised capacities. But even then, there was ... . It was fun. How could they say that? Am I really gonna take this class ... swimming. I detested it. It made my stomach roll in folds. Did MIT care

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  -school-senior-me didn’t know how to answer. So I gave the only response I knew for sure: “Definitely not in a big city.” I’d spent my entire life in a small town in ... ’m writing this in my dorm room overlooking the city of Boston. Ultimately, I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  the only thought in my head was “I thought we would have beautiful ... first arrived in the US from Vietnam, I literally didn’t understand how ... In my blogging folder, I had a draft post that sums up my senior year

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  would’ve been our Senior Week. In the fall, I’ll be over at Harvard to ... tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a ... ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo9elE7Ij-c One night, in the middle of my time away from MIT, I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  that took up a lot of my spring and summer, but I made it! So in this ... research in general over the last few months. As a disclaimer, I don't speak ... had me take it in whatever direction I desired. Originally, I had landed

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  On Thursday, I sat in front of a camera for an hour (along with ... ." List your skills for us. How many programming languages do you know? I ... . I thought about how the MIT application was nothing like a job

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  would want to play in college, and honestly, I hadn’t thought about it ... like I just stepped on campus to begin preseason, and now I’m handing in my practice gear and taking down the decorations in my locker. So, how

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  i participated in my last admissions telethon early last week! it was great to send out warm fuzzy greetings, but i received one question multiple times and i promised i would write up a longer answer. the question

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  ."]Last week[/annotation] I got back [annotation note="how the process for the ... olivia rodrigo"]brutal.[/annotation] Which in part I’ve been expecting. I ... conference due in a month.  I chose… none of them. I chose to withdraw and to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  usually go in the back door when I'm late but today, TODAY for reasons still ... is if I'd maybe dropped through a trapdoor in the ceiling onto his head ... , I apologize again, and I would still like a reasonably good grade once

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  smile, then say: "I learned a lot." I remember how I felt when I first ... would have preferred to sleep, and had a mini emotional breakdown in my ... on less, and if it had, I would always wonder whether I could have done

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  a career in aerospace research? How did I figure it all out? These are ... -sensing constellation, which reminds me of how much I loved learning orbital dynamics in ... After I graduate in June, I’m planning to attend grad school and

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  . In summary, though, I would highly recommend taking a freshman seminar ... sure how to represent the enormous beast that is MIT, I figured I'd start ... quite the case. (And of course, the jab above is all in good fun -- I have

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  ’ people, knowing that I would win. But as I moved up in the hierarchy of ... pencil down announcing that I had finished first. In 4th grade, in ... about how I was faster. 80wpm!!! Throughout middle school, I was a proud

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018